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Schumer gives GOP ‘pass’ to vote against benefits for immigrants
Byron York
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
One of the defining features of the Senate Judiciary Committee meetings considering amendments to the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill is that the two Republican Gang members on the committee — Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake — have often sided with unanimous Democrats to vote down...
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How much news has the Obama administration successfully suppressed?
Philip Klein
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the Washington Post that the DOJ had also targeted Fox reporter James Rosen for surveillance in an effort to plug up leaks....
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White House: 'Entirely appropriate' that senior staff didn't tell Obama about IRS probe
Brian Hughes
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
Senior White House officials knew for nearly a month that the Internal Revenue Service was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, but they decided not to tell President Obama about the incident, the White House said Monday. The admission shows the White House knew about...
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Immigration fight moves to House, with deep divide over legalization
Byron York
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
There will be an event on Capitol Hill this week that will tell us a lot about the future of comprehensive immigration reform. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the Senate Gang of Eight reform proposal. It doesn’t have any great official purpose; the Gang bill...
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Tim Carney: For Barack Obama, speech isn't free when it criticizes him
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson: Watch what you say. On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...
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After Obama's roughest week, White House points finger at GOP
Brian Hughes
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
White House officials on Sunday dismissed Republican attacks over three simmering scandals as a partisan witch hunt, hoping to put behind them President Obama's single worst week in office and to move Washington's attention back to his second-term agenda. While Obama was delivering a...
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Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.”
Sean Higgins
Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013
A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents. The Post story...
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How many nonprofit auditors does the IRS have?
Sean Higgins
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
In its Saturday edition the Washington Post featured two separate front-page stories about the controversy engulfing the Internal Revenue Service for its targeting of Tea Party groups seeking nonprofit status. Both stories featured completely different figures for the number of auditors the IRS...
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Conn Carroll: The Obama scandals' case for limited government
Conn Carroll
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
"It's an interesting case study, right," former President Obama adviser David Axelrod told the crew of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, "because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy, ya know -- we have a large government -- took it upon...


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